Verdure - luminous beings: Liam Benson

Benson's Verdure: luminous beings, underscores the importance of reciprocal exchanges in both human relationships and natural ecosystems that maintain holistic health for both individuals and the communities they form.

Nature’s unbiased, intrinsic responses within ecosystems serve as a model for understanding and processing the personal and communal experiences, lived experience and emotional learning that inform Benson’s cultural identity. Listening to and learning from nature, highlights the significance of both spoken and unspoken, direct and subtle exchanges that occur within inherited and chosen family relationships and community.

Communal memories, experiences and relationships have formed the foundation of Benson’s queer cultural experience. In equal measures, it has been shaped through the subtle osmosis of queer cultural legacy, transferred through the residual consciousness of queer storytelling, art and language. 

Benson’s exhibition Verdure: luminous beings feature new and existing work, as well as community collaborative works made through textile workshops and creative exchange facilitated by the artist.

Official Opening

Thursday 31 July 2025, 6pm

Guest Speaker

Blake Griffiths artist, curator and facilitator working with a textile focus 

Exhibition Overview(PDF, 75KB)

Q&A with Liam Benson(PDF, 1MB)

Media Release(PDF, 76KB)

Watch now: Exhibition tour of Verdure - Luminous Beings: Liam Benson

 

 

Image: Liam Benson Evenfall, 2024 (detail) sequins, seed beads, cotton, dyed calico, tulle, diamantes and rhinestones, Supported by Hilin Kazemi. Image credit: Jessica Maurer